Home cinema installation in Oxfordshire, with the picture and sound set up for your room by our own engineers before we hand it over.
Two rooms with the same projector and speakers can look and sound completely different. The size of the room, its hard and soft surfaces, where the seats are and how much daylight gets in all change the result, which is why calibration is part of our cinema installations.
Sound and picture in our Finchampstead cinema
In the Finchampstead cinema we built in Berkshire, an Anthem MRX 11 AV receiver and power amplifier drive Sonance speakers hidden in the walls, and the video travels over CAT6 with AVPro Edge MXNet to a projector in its own housing at the back of the room. Our engineers calibrated the picture and the sound to the room before handover.
Read about the Finchampstead cinema and see the room at every stage.
Home cinemas across Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire homes range from riverside houses in Henley-on-Thames and Goring to Cotswold stone houses and farm conversions. Thick stone walls are good at keeping sound in, but they make Wi-Fi and cable routes harder, so we survey carefully and keep the installation discreet and in keeping with the house. Enquiries around Oxford, Bicester and Henley-on-Thames go to the same team that installs and supports them.
What we look after
- Room design, seating layout and screen size
- Projection or a large TV, chosen for how bright the room is
- Surround sound, including Dolby Atmos where the room suits it
- Acoustic fabric walls and room treatment
- Calibration at handover, and support afterwards through 1Install Care
Questions we are often asked
What does calibration involve?
We measure how the room behaves and adjust the projector or TV and the sound processor to suit it, so the colours, the brightness and the balance between speakers are right from the seats you actually use.
Can a cinema work in a stone built or listed house?
Yes, with care. We plan the cable routes and equipment positions so nothing harms the character of the house, and in many cases the speakers and racks can be hidden completely.
Do you cover the whole of Oxfordshire?
Yes, including Henley-on-Thames, Oxford, Abingdon, Thame and Wallingford, and the villages around them.
Areas we cover in Oxfordshire
Henley-on-Thames, Oxford, Abingdon, Thame, Wallingford, Woodstock, Witney, Didcot, Chipping Norton, Bicester, Burford. See also home automation in Oxfordshire and our Oxfordshire page.
Book a consultation or call our head office on 01344 937999. You can also get a budget in minutes with our Quote Builder.